White Nationalism 
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/21/2021
Bad Religion in the Ivory Tower
by Jacques Berlinerblau
Have scholars of religion and politics missed the rise of militant Christian nationalism because they follow an unspoken rule to "always posit religion at its best, secularism at its worst"?
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SOURCE: Sapiens
10/6/2020
What White Power Supporters Hear Trump Saying
by Alexander Hinton
Donald Trump's attacks on "political correctness" aren't calls for intellectual openness or academic freedom; they are coded messages invoking white grievance politics, including the longstanding idea that multiculturalism is part of a genocidal attack on the white race.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
10/8/2020
Americans Aren't Worried about White Nationalism in the Military– Because They Don't Know It's There
by Jennifer Spindel, Matt Motta, and Robert Ralston
The extent of white nationalism in the active military is not precisely known. But few Americans are aware at all of the connections between the military and far right groups. Publicizing the fact that military leadership--a trusted group--is concerned about the issue could make more Americans aware of the problem of domestic extremism.
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11/24/19
The Myth of the First Thanksgiving is a Buttress of White Nationalism and Needs to Go
by David J. Silverman
Americans tend to view the Thanksgiving myth as harmless, but it is loaded with fraught ideological meaning.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
August 4, 2019
The Right Way to Understand White Nationalist Terrorism
by Kathleen Belew
Attacks like that in El Paso are not an end in themselves. They are a call to arms, toward something much more frightening.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
7/31/19
Don't just revile Amy Wax--rebut her
by Jonathan Zimmerman
Outrage does not and cannot refute what she said -- only facts can do that.
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SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
6/28/19
Medieval History Goes to War With Itself
While medievalists battle, white nationalists try to co-opt the past.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/16/19
The accused New Zealand shooter and an all-white Europe that never existed
Brenton Tarrant covered his arsenal with symbols and names that medieval historians say are being misused by white supremacists.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
5-24-18
How a child born more than 400 years ago became a symbol of white nationalism
by Andrew Lawler
Virginia Dare and the myth of American whiteness.
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SOURCE: AHA
12-21-17 (accessed)
Teaching Against White Nationalism: How One Historian Took Action
by Jeremy Best
"When we use the tools we possess as historians, many of our students listen, especially when we treat them with a respectful openness to discussion and debate. This is truly something white nationalists are unable to counter."
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10-22-17
How This Historian Responded to the Aggressive White Nationalism of Trump Followers
by Linda Gordon
She decided to turn a chapter she was writing on the Second KKK into a book.
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
9-18-17
There are women who back the KKK and Neo-Nazis, too
by Arica L. Coleman
Blaming 'Bad Dudes' Masks the Role of Women in the History of White Nationalism
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